Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Baba Yaga" | Slavic | The wild old woman; the dark lady; and mistress of magic. She is also seen as a Forest spirit, leading hosts of spirits. Slavic |
Spirit name "Bannik" | Slavic | The spirit of the bath house who flits amongst the dense steam of the sauna bath. |
Goddess name "Bereginy" | Slavic | Goddesses and spirits of nature. Slavic |
Spirit name "Domovoy" | Slavic | A. Every house has its domovoy, domestic spirit, who lives with his wife and family. Slavic |
Spirit name "Gumeniki" | Slavic | A clåśś of animistic spirits who look after storehouses and grainaries. Slavic |
Spirit name "Khoromozitel" | Slavic | A house spirit in Slavic folklore. They are masculine, typically small, and sometimes covered in hair all over. According to some traditions, they take on the appearance of current or former owners of the house and have a grey beard, sometimes with tails or little horns. |
Spirit name "Khoromozitel/ Domovi/ Dovomik" | Slavic | These are domestic spirits, sadly not be sipping kind |
Spirit name "Kikimora" | Slavic | Female house spirit and counterpart of the Domovoi, to whom she is sometimes wedded. She lives in the cellar or behind the stove. At night she comes out to spin and help with the housework in a well-tended home. She is depicted as an average woman with hair undone, sometimes with chicken feet. Sometimes she might appear, spinning, as a portend to one about to die. Slavic |
Spirit name "Laskowice" | Slavic | These are satyr type Forest spirits with a close relationship with the Wolf |
Spirit name "Navky" | Slavic | Were the spirits of children who had died unbaptized or at their mother's hands. Most often they appeared in the shapes of infants or young girls, rocking in tree branches and wailing and crying in the night. Slavic |
Spirit name "Poluvirica" | Slavic | A female Forest spirit who appears naked, with a long face, pendulant breasts and three braids of hair down her back. Slavic |
Spirit name "Pozemne Vile" | Slavic | earth spirits who live underground in mines and caves and hoard precious metals and jewels. Slavic |
Spirit name "Stribog" | Slavic | The god and spirit of the winds, sky and air. The ancestor of the winds of the eight directions. Slavic |
Spirit name "Svarog" | Slavic | The Slavic Sun God and spirit of fire. His name means bright and clear. |
Spirit name "Vodyanoy" | Slavic | A malevolent water spirit who likes to drown humans. Slavic |